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The fact that they called it "portable" document format and now I regularly get PDFs that display "Please open this file in Acrobat" if opened in any other viewer... Great stuff.
Wait, this actually happens?
- make fillable forms
- fill out a form, and save/load/save it?
I recall some fillable forms could be opened and filled out on macos, but then they were sort of "finalized" and couldn't be edited once saved.
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Not sure why would anyone edit a pdf. To me this is a format you export to, not a draft/working doc format.
As much as I agree, I've lost track of how often someone's given me a PDF form to fill out. While driving down to the print store during business hours for a scanner is possible , it's a lot easier to make a sacrifice to the dark gods of format abuse instead.
Acrobat Reader is one of the more poorly engineered programs I’ve used. And it recently asked me to sign in an account and give Adobe money to open a PDF?? Unfortunately I need to sign PDFs often (using an image of my physical signature or a digital certificate), and I haven’t used that didn’t suck more than Adobe in this. I haven’t tried Okular for this and Evince seemingly didn’t support this - but Preview (althoug…
There is a pure rust library for rendering pdfs to png(or bitmap) and svg: https://github.com/LaurenzV/hayro . It is used by typst for pdf image[1]. Although it might not be as mature as mupdf. [1]: https://github.com/typst/typst/pull/6623
I actually chatted for a bit with Laurenz (the developer) and he recommended against using hayro in my case for the time being.
It is however part of (or dependent on) the larger linebender group of crates and will most likely be the best option in the future.
No mention of Sumatra PDF[1]? Windows (only), open source, uses MuPDF. [1] https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/
I haven't really ever had issues with Evince. I don't know that my requirements have that advanced, but it does auto-updates when I write Typst or LaTeX, which is the thing I primarily care about.
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Not sure why would anyone edit a pdf. To me this is a format you export to, not a draft/working doc format.
Reorder pages. Redact. Need to make a minor change, and don't have the original. Digitally sign a document. Comment on a document. Join several documents together. There are a bunch of reasons.
I don't count signing as editing really as the structure and content do not change, you sre just attaching s certificate. Th spanish government offer/maintain an open source java tool to digitally sign pdfs: https://administracionelectronica.gob.es/ctt/clienteafirma https://github.com/ctt-gob-es/clienteafirma/
I've also copy pasted scan of my signature on contracts using Gimp in order to not have to print them, it is fairly easy.
For the rest I would tend to ask first for thread original working document if I don't have it already. Having said that I have edited in a hurry an old cv for my partner using libreoffice draw in the past.